Movies: Gaumont British Instructional

Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the joints of the human skeleton. It uses live action and animated medical illustrations as well as an act...

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar....

In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains....

This promotional film bills the market town of Newark as central to the farming industry, with an array of regional produce and livestock. It was sponsored by the British Council and intended for an international audience....

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on he...

The Secrets of Life series (1934-50) may not conform to modern expectations of nature filmmaking, inclined as it is towards giving cute fluffy creatures human names and characteristics. But it couldn't be accused of shielding kiddies from the harsher...

King Penguins are first seen in their natural habitat, the Antarctic, after which we see them in the Edinburgh Zoo. With slow-motion pictures we see how they swim with the use of their flippers and feet. Their mating and incubating of their eggs and ...

A Secrets of Life short....

A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next....

Documentary about the building of ships at Barrow-in-Furness....

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

Propaganda for the care of the eyesight. Diagrams are used to demonstrate the structure and function of the eye. Eye conditions that can affect the sight are also illustrated....

The Case of The Missing Scene is a children's crime thriller that has been designed in the tradition of classic British children's films. A camera team takes pictures of rare birds from a hide when a poacher happens to get into the picture. The evide...

Young girls attend ballet school and make debut performances...

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God....

Using diagrams, 'Atlantic' explores the history of the empires surrounding the Atlantic Ocean over the last 600 years....

The history, development and uses of the oscillograph....

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in mag...

Story of young boy and girl who help aircraft designer to outwit gang of spies trying to steal secret plans....

A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank....